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Kaye is the foremost children's magician in the United States, author of numerous books including Seriously Silly [5] and Super-Sized Silly, [6] a columnist in both Magic (American magazine) [7] and Genii magazine, [8] and creator of numerous marketed tricks: "Peek-a-Boo Bunny," "Yes, No, Maybe So," "Princess in a Pickle," among others.
Silly Billy was a type of clown common at fairs in England during the 19th century. They were also common in London as street entertainers , along with the similar clown, Billy Barlow. [ 1 ] The act included playing the part of a fool or idiot, impersonating a child and singing comic songs . [ 2 ]
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A fact from Silly Billy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 August 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Silly Billies is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Fred Guiol from a screenplay by Al Boasberg and Jack Townley, based on a story by Guiol and Thomas Lennon. The film was the twentieth feature for the comedy duo of Wheeler and Woolsey ( Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey ), and also stars Dorothy Lee , who had been in a number of their films.
A clown with "happy face" painting. In the circus, one of the roles that clowns play is engaging in silliness. When clowning is taught, the different components of silliness include "funny ways of speaking to make people laugh", making "silly face[s] and sound[s]", engaging in "funny ways of moving, and play[ing] with extreme emotions such as pretending to laugh and cry". [7]
Old King Cole summons various Mother Goose characters for his entertainment, including the Three Blind Mice as his "fiddlers three", Miss Muffet, Jack and Jill (who meet Simple Simon atop the hill), Humpty Dumpty (whom Mother Goose's goose knocks off of his wall), Jack Horner (his Christmas pie also containing the four and twenty blackbirds), Bo Peep (Boy Blue brings the sheep home, one of ...
William "Billy" is a 9-year-old human boy who strangely has an impossibly low IQ of -5, a sign of profound intellectual disability, having been outperformed by a shovel and two candy bracelets on an IQ test, though he acts like a smart-aleck.